It's still true that the majority of marriages work.

As the years go by (we're past the 30 mark at the moment), I've come to believe that one of the most important phrases in the traditional Book of Common Prayer marriage rite is the promise to obey. We left it out of our vows, and she still disagrees with me on this, but to me the promise to obey is a stipulation that each partner has equal standing and that we will give each other the benefit of the doubt. Naturally she thinks back to how girls were once raised and how feminism called it out: obeying your husband is just another name for servitude. She gets the benefit of the doubt on that.

You could look it up.

It is immaterial what people say they think of Obama's handling of the issue. Have you at Salon lost all perspective? What's important is what people think of the actual plans for the healthcare system. Could you click a few links and find that out for us, or do we readers have to do everything here in the letters section?

Apparently the state is arrogating to itself all rights not enumerated by the Feds, including those powers held by the people. Thanks a lot, Sarah.

It's like fighting zombies to deal with this crush of mendacity and unscrupulousness.

It is very convenient for the health-care debate that the Senator made this announcement today, on the eve of adjournment.

For instance, Isaac Newton was a hopeless mystic, devoted to the Kabbala as much as his beloved celestial mechanics. And his colleague and benefactor Edmond Halley demonstrated that the cosmos, both above and below, was not fixed but mobile, in the 1600s.

And the scientist of today is a mere engineer without his intimacy with wonder. Every good researcher knows that advances are made by rigorously preserving an awareness that beyond certainty, anything can lie out there. The Victorians certainly never lost that. But subtle variations in a continuum don't make catchy books.

Then he could REALLY wave the bloody shirt.

Anyway, why would a gang beat up some guy for passing out flags? That's hardly an outrage, or even effective.

...but I don't like his lying about them on national TV.

Maybe you haven't heard about the plan to add taxes only to incomes over $250K, but that's what Obama ran for president saying. No one has threatened to raise taxes on the middle-income class. Have they?

Remember, "rare earth elements" are not rare; it's just a name that chemists use for the lanthanide elements, plus scandium and yttrium. There are deposits all over the world, and we are not running out of them.

Maybe some of you remember the solar eclipse about 30 years ago that crossed the western United States. A few teachers freaked out from urban legends of people going blind, and they actually locked their kids indoors with the curtains drawn rather than subject them to an educational experience.

These kids won't remember any details of what Obama tells them. They'll just remember that the President cared about them. We can't have that.

I pegged this item for a stupid satire right away. Stick to your persona, please.

It should be a moment's work to screen the string "gobuyvogue" from any comment and reject it. This spammer is making me sick.

But she is effectively a woman, period. There's no sense throwing her into the men's arena.

There are genetic females who possess full-size phalluses, including urethras, and they are effectively male, period. We are going to have to accept some weird cases instead of trying to adhere to a strict genetic standard for these things. These people aren't cheating, just playing the hands they were dealt.

Did I miss an announcement that the House and the other Senate committees are chopped liver? Where did this single Republican senator get his blithe assurance that his group "have been given the responsibility"?

"Oh no, I'm not calling the Democrats or the President monkeys." Not on the face of it he isn't. But the next person who uses the phrase, all by itself, will be. Watch. Watch Rush Limbaugh start emitting it, like a turd. Watch who starts using it, and tell me what they mean. It's like Newt Gingrich advised his party to do long ago: attach turds to the enemy, words like "fail, pitiful, traitors."

"I just finished a professional degree, and I am about to move to a new city."

I think you have enough on your plate without looking for more to worry about. Cary's maunderings aren't very helpful when he doesn't recognize that you're a single person facing a major life transition.

This thread is a useless string of spam.

I feel like the Nobel committee is jumping the shark, too, but then I can't think of a better candidate for the prize at the moment. What Obama does, and what he represents, really amounts to a sea change in the global context for nuclear nonproliferation, diplomacy and science-informed policy. A host of issues, like boats, are rising with his tide.

do you always respond in non sequiturs?

And I could read whatever Reich has to say in one-tenth the time it would take to click this bit of Flash.

Don't publish obligatory video, Salon. Put up a transcript.

Between this sophomoric fiction and the bewildering new design, I am seriously off my Salon addiction.

What other website is waiting to eat Salon's lunch? I'm ready to check it out.

Last I heard, Armenia sat between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran.

Look up in the upper right corner of the page for the link to use the old Salon layout. They keep track. You don't have to be stuck with the execrable "beta Salon."

I look forward to hearing what those are. For me, a reader since the very beginning, this redesign gives up functions and features that kept me oriented in Salon, in time and place, and now has--what?